Engineering students will dominate the largest graduating class in LSU when diplomas are handed out to more than 1800 Saturday night.
About 400 of these will be from the college of engineering, its first ime to take leadership in the number of graduates.
Commencement exercises this year will be in the Agriculture Center, which is the only building on the campus able to accommodate the class and crowd satisfactorily.
Included in the graduating class will be 17-year-old Mary Kay Rowland of Baton Rouge and Grandmother Verne Soule Byrnes of Bogalusa.
Dr. William V. Houston, president of Rice Institute, Houston, will deliver the commencement address. Greetings will be given by Lt; Gov. William J. Dodd.
Degrees will be conferred on the, graduates by President Harold W. Stoke, except for the medical students, who will receive them from Medical School Dean William B. Frye.
In the graduating class are students from 33 states. Mississippi heads this list with 90 and Texas follows with 44.
There are also graduates from 14 foreign countries.
